NORTHBROOK (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- A missing persons case from nearly 40 years ago is the first big case for Northbrook’s new police chief. WBBM Newsradio’s Nancy Harty sat down with him and has this report.
Following a Northbrook Police Department tradition, Linda Seymour’s cold case was passed along when the detective working on it left. Chief Christopher Kennedy said a fresh set of eyes asked more questions of Seymour’s adult son, who lives in the house where she disappeared.
"The son had a recollection of the father. There's a fountain area, or something he was doing as a young boy; and the father was filling it in and he remembers the father being upset about it, so that was sort of an interesting indicator that hadn't come in previously," he said.
He said despite cadaver dogs hitting on something in the yard, they didn’t find any remains.
"They brought out dogs and there were several indicators in the shed area..."
Kennedy hopes the attention will jog memories or encourage tipsters to come forward to the department he took over two months ago, after nearly serving 29 years with the Chicago Police Department.
"It's a very good police department, but I have the ability to make it better and I plan to do that," Kennedy said.
More cameras and a therapy dog for officers are among his ideas to do that.
He said residents and village administration are very supportive of the department, but plans to work on community building at a time when police across the country are under the microscope.
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